Leptotes sanctithomae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Papilionoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera Ordo: Lepidoptera Subordo: Glossata Cladus: Coelolepida Cladus: Myoglossata Cladus: Neolepidoptera Infraordo: Heteroneura Cladus: Eulepidoptera Cladus: Ditrysia Cladus: Apoditrysia Cladus: Obtectomera Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Polyommatinae
Tribus: Polyommatini
Genus: Leptotes
Species: Leptotes sanctithomae

Name

Leptotes sanctithomae (Sharpe, 1893).

Type locality: W. Africa, São Tomé and Príncipe ["St. Thomas Is."] St. Nicolau.

Holotype: not located.

Synonyms

• Catochrysops sancti-thomae Sharpe, 1893: 556.
• Syntarucus terrenus Joicey & Talbot, 1926: 224, TL: São Tomé and Príncipe, “Sao Thomé”, Holotype: not located; Stempffer, 1967: 221; Synonymy in Libert, 2011.
• Freyeria sanctithomae (Sharpe); Ackery et al., 1995.
• Chilades sanctithomae (Sharpe); Hesselbarth et al., 1995.
• Leptotes terrenus (Joicey & Talbot); Williams, 2008, Polyommatini 1: 57.
• Leptotes sanctithomae (Sharpe); Libert, 2011; Fric et al., 2019.

Note: Balint, 1999: 46 suggests that C. sanctithomae may be a junior subjective synonym of Chilades naidina, but has not made a formal synonymy.

References

• Ackery, P.R., Smith, C.R. & Vane-Wright, R.I. (Editors), 1995. Carcasson's African Butterflies: An annotated Catalogue of the Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea of the Afrotropical Region. British Museum (Natural History), London, U.K.: i–xi, 1–803. Open Library. Reference page. 
• Bálint, Z.,1999. Annotated list of type specimens of Polyommatus sensu Eliot of the Natural History Museum, London (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). PDF. Neue Entomologische Nachrichten 46: 3–82. Reference page. 
• Fric, Z.F., Maresova, J., Kadlec, T., Tropek, R., Pyrcz, T.W. & Wiemers, M. 2019. World travellers: phylogeny and biogeography of the butterfly genus Leptotes (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Systematic Entomology 44(3): 652–665. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12349 Reference page. 
• Hesselbarth, G., van Oorschot, H. & Wagener, S. 1995. Die Tagfalter der Türkei unter Berücksichtigung der angrenzenden Länder. Allgemeiner Teil, spezieller Teil. Band 1. Hesperiidae, Papilionidae, Pieridae, Lycaenidae. Selbstverlag Sigbert Wagener, Hemdener Weg 19, D 46399 Bocholt, Germany: 1–754. Reference page. 
• Joicey, J.J. and Talbot, G. 1926a. New forms of Lepidoptera from the island of Sao Thome, West Africa. Entomologist 59: 220–226. Reference page. 
• Libert, M. 2011. Note sur le genre Leptotes Scudder, 1876 (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Lambillionea 111(1): 53–66. Reference page. 
• Sharpe, E., 1902. Descriptions of three new butterflies from East Africa. Entomologist 35: 40-41. BHL. Reference page. 
• Stempffer, H. 1967. The genera of the African Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology. Supplement 10: 322pp, 1pl. BHL Reference page. 
• Williams, M.C. 2007. Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea. 7th Edn. (April 2007). Downloaded from Afrotropical Butterflies. Reference page.